There are several pages like this throughout the wiki. There's nothing wrong with them, and the fact that you want to make something wrong with them is sad.
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And that's a problem if so, we're not a filmography/discography site, if I want a list of works in table format I'll go to Wikipedia. I don't come here to read stuffy reference material.
edited 7th May '13 11:17:42 AM by shoboni
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You'll need a reason that's more convincing than "I don't like it" and "it looks like a Wikipedia page" to get a consensus to change it completely. The format right now is unusual, but it does mean that all the same information for each entry is there, in the same order and easily findable.
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I don't mind these tables at all. I quite like them, actually. But there is one issue that popped up when we were choosing images for Stock Poses. The page has now such a table with thumbnail images. At the beginning we thought that the table would replace the index, but indexing doesn't work in the table.
That could be an argument for re-formatting the page (The Film of the Series). BTW, the solution for Stock Poses was to include two indexes at one page — one to keep the tropes listed, and the second for the visual appeal.
I personally don't mind the table at all, but that may be my liking for neat networks and organization talking.
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Most examples seem to lack any real context.
That too, it's rendered this a page full of Zero Context Examples(or little content examples) that just have "yeah, this show got a movie this year" and not much else."
I see no practical reason for the table formatting.
edited 7th May '13 12:55:00 PM by shoboni
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I like the formatting...it's unusual but doesn't detract from the page in any major sense that I can see. The ZCE problem is a different story, but that's for a different thread.
The ZCE problem might be caused by the formating (or maybe just that the last column is called Notes?). The Notes column is also under Film version.
I think some examples have ended up with "notes about the film" instead of context for the trope because of this.
I think Sorting Algorithm of Mortality and Sorting Algorithm of Deadness, to name two, use table format. Same with Dueling Shows or Dueling Series, though I'm not sure if that even exists anymore.
Those all make sense using it though, it doesn't in this one.
Why not? It makes perfect sense to me—it provides a clear presentation of the information, in a way that makes it easy to understand what the information is at a glance.
Because it's just a list of movies, just like any other trope page. We're not showing a chart, a timeline, or comparing something, and there's nothing about the plot of the movies either.
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This has been dead for months and the consensus is that the table formatting isn't harming the page. Locking up.
Whoever did the page for The Film of the Series formatted it in a really weird table format I've not seen anywhere else on the wiki, and IMO it's just an eye-sore and makes the page to seem to much like a Wikipedia article.